Re: Insane modellers (and another GZG...)

On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 04:11  PM, Brian Burger wrote:
> I got sent this link today, and it's too cool not to share! Some crazy
> person (group of crazy people...) has built an entire 1/144 scale
Heavy
> Gear Landship! Complete with working lights in the vehicle bays, and
> scratchbuilt aircraft on the catapults!
> http://www.dp9.com/Support/landship.htm
>
> Man, I'm getting dangerously inspired in the 'crazy large project'
> department...

Some mad scientists have had ideas to build such stuff in 1:1 scale.
There
are:
the WWII German 1000 ton "Rat" tank project
http://www.panzerschreck.de/panzer/pzkpfw/p1000.html
the 1500 ton "Monster" gun
http://www.panzerschreck.de/panzer/pzkpfw/p1500.html

And in the early 1930's the "Midgard Serpent", a tunneling tank.
http://www.geocities.com/madsin72/midgard.html
Some data:
Length 524 meters (a 6 mm scale model would be over 5 feet long)
composed of 77 coupled sections, each 6 m long, 6.8m wide, 3.5 m high
the head to be fitted with 4 drills
total 19.800 horsepower
able to wade up to 100 m
speed 30 km/h over land, 10 km/h under the earth

It was rejected as technically and tactically absurd

Sorry, all weblinks in German

Greetings
Karl Heinz